One of our Percona Support customers recently reported that
Percona XtraBackup failed with a page corruption
error on an InnoDB table. The customer thought it was a problem
or bug in the Percona XtraBackup tool. After investigation we
found that an InnoDB page was actually corrupted and a Percona
XtraBackup tool caught the error as expected and hence the backup
job failed.

Google senior systems engineer Jeremy Cole is
once again teaming with LinkedIn senior software engineer Davi
Arnaut for two InnoDB-focused sessions at the upcoming Percona
Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2014 this April 1-4 in Santa
Clara, California.

When Sun acquired MySQL and announced that it would
invest the resources necessary to position the open source
database for mission-critical deployments, I think everyone
assumed that the database would eventually become bigger and
heavier.

Few would have predicted that we would also see a project that
would make the database smaller and lighter, but that is exactly
what Drizzle, a new project from Sun’s MySQL director
of architecture Brian Aker, is all about.

I?ve already taken a look at MySQL?s changing business model and the potential business drivers behind the company
considering introducing new functionality under to Enterprise
customers only. One area that I didn?t dive into was the impact
on the company?s development model.

This, in fact, was the focus of Jeremy Cole?s initial take on the
news as well as a significant response from Marten Mickos. ?MySQL
will start …

“Sun to Begin Close Sourcing MySQL” screamed the headline on Slashdot last night. The
headline is not entirely accurate (although slightly more
accurate than the bizarre statement that “Sun has had a very poor
history of actually open sourcing anything”).

So what is going on at MySQL? To get to the bottom of that you
have to weave together a number of posts and comments from a
number of sources. First the article behind the Slashdot
headline:

My posts lately have been mostly progress reports and release
notices. That's because we're in the home stretch on the book,
and I don't have much spare time. However, a lot has also been
changing with Maatkit, and I wanted to take some time to write
about it properly.

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